This just landed on mozilla-inbound. -- Ehsan <http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > Over in bug 866425, we're planning to drop support for MSVC2005/2008. > MSVC2010 and MSVC2012 will remain supported compilers for Windows. > > Previously there was no free (as in beer) version of MSVC2010 so we had to > support those older compilers to make it possible to build Mozilla with a > free build environment, but MSVC2010 Express is now freely available, and > there is no good reason to keep supporting those old compilers any more. > > Note that this patch just makes configure be explicit about our implicit > policy. Over the past few years we've been consistently breaking those old > compilers, which meant the users of those compilers were in constant pain > when a new change broke their build. Those users should upgrade to > MSVC2010 now, in order to enjoy a supported build environment. > > This change will only affect mozilla-central, and will ride the trains as > any other change would. > > Cheers, > -- > Ehsan > <http://ehsanakhgari.org/> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
